Sissle,Noble / Blake,Eubie / Browning,Harold - Sissle and Blake Sing Shuffle Along - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Bryce Morrison, the celebrated critic and authority on piano music, described the pre-eminent Hungarian pianist as follows 'Annie Fischer was among the greatest and most richly comprehensive of all pianists'. The distinguished Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, notoriously critical, described her as 'an artist imbued with a spirit of greatness and with genuine profundity'. Fischer was universally acclaimed in Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert and Chopin as well as her own compatriots, Liszt, Bartók and Kodály. Despite her international reputation, however, in comparison with other pianists of her generation she is probably the least represented on disc. This was mainly due to a distaste for the recording process - she preferred the freedom and spontaneity of live performances. It is a well known that her studio recordings of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas were made over many years and with many different producers. She was never satisfied with the results, so in this BBC recital of selected Beethoven sonatas, Annie Fischer is heard as she would have wanted - live and caught on the wing, making this recording very valuable. Misha Donat, her producer for Sonata No.30, said Inchshe hated working in the studio so these are real performances; they were always done in a complete 'take', though sometimes she would play through a movement twiceInch.

Continuing with Harbinger Records' acclaimed series of albums devoted to jazz pianist, composer, Broadway songwriter, and black music pioneer Eubie Blake, we proudly present the original demo to the proposed Broadway musical 'Shuffle Along of 1950.' Harbinger's recording of Sissle and Blake singing the score to the original production of 'Shuffle Along' won the Grammy Award for it's brilliant liner notes by Richard Carlin and Ken Bloom, authors of an upcoming biography of Eubie Blake to be published by Oxford University Press. They are repeating their assignment for this recording. Also included is a bonus track featuring remastering of the only surviving acetate of a historical InchSalute to Ruth King.Inch Ruth King was a famous Cleveland DJ who celebrated black musicians. And such notables as Sissle and Blake and the legendary WC Handy, composer of St. Louis Blues, play for Ms. King. Several songs from the original 'Shuffle Along' are included as are new songs written especially for this production. Later, other musicians augmented the score, and these songs are also included in this rare recording.

Upper Canadian Hymns & Preludes - Chamber Music [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/16/1997